Amazon unveils the $500 Echo Show 16, the $200 Echo Time alarm, and the $200+ Alexa Photo Frame, raises smart speaker prices, and previews Alexa Home Map  —  With its latest devices, including a smart bedside alarm clock, Amazon looks to cement Alexa's presence in every room of the home

SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 328% YoY to ~$78.8B, above ~$74.07B est., and operating profit up 632% to ~$62.76B, above ~$57.78B est. and a company record  —  Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.

Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, its “strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity” capabilities, ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis' new Intelligence Index  —  Gemini 4 Carbon is our strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long horizon capabilities.

GitHub says it's seeing 7.4B commits per month, up from 2.9B in August, and has added 4M CPU cores and 160PB of storage in 2026 so far to support this growth  —  GitHub is seeing unprecedented demand and is updating its core infrastructure to keep pace.  —  In August, GitHub …

Artificial Analysis launches the Intelligence Index v5, with new coding and science benchmarks, built on private datasets; Claude Opus 5.5 (max) leads at 58  —  Announcing Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5, featuring 2 new benchmarks and 3 upgrades. For the first time, the majority of the Index is built on private datasets The Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index is our composite measure of model capabilities across tasks reflecting real-world u...

Lawsuit: the parents of a 31-year-old say OpenAI's GPT-4o guided her through an aggressive tapering plan off epilepsy meds, leading to her death in February  —  The chatbot helped a woman taper off a lifesaving drug and hide the plan from her doctors.  — 1.3k

Anthropic's S-1 implies a $40T+ annual TAM based on knowledge work's economic value in 2025, topping SpaceX's $28.5T estimate, without explicitly naming TAM  —  The company's estimated market opportunity, tied to the economic value of work produced by knowledge workers, tops SpaceX's enormous figure from earlier this year

Reddit rolls out a dual-feed homepage, with For You and Following feeds, joining TikTok, Instagram, and others in offering a For You feed  —  Reddit is the latest social platform to adopt the “For You” feed popularized by TikTok.  The company announced on Wednesday that users will now see two options …

Apple unveils a touchscreen MacBook Pro with a 14" or 16" PROLED XDR display, a light-up Apple logo, Dynamic Island, M5 Pro and M5 Max, for $2,899+ and $3,399+  —  The world's best pro laptop now features an industry-leading tandem OLED display, an intuitive Touch experience …

Research: professional analysts followed AI agents' randomly assigned “leans” on subjective analytical decisions 86% of the time; 77% used the agents' arguments  —  Amaç Herdağdelen, Hailey Joren, Alex Tamkin  —  When experts hand their work to an AI agent …

Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight model for multilingual audio transcription and translation, and Granary v2, its open-source speech dataset  —  Nvidia Corp. today released a leaderboard-winning open artificial intelligence model for multilingual audio transcription and translation …

X adds an intrusive promotional animation of an arm reaching across the screen to direct users to a “promote” post button, targeting verified and Premium users  —  You have to hand it to X's latest promotional gimmick.  —  After Elon Musk warned that …

Meta quietly launched Waddle World, a Tamagotchi-like, AI pet-rearing game, in the Philippines in September, calling it a “daily journal disguised as a pet”  —  But it's only available in the Philippines for now.  —  Looks like a big part of Meta's AI strategy is to rely on …

Foundry, a manufacturing-as-a-service startup that builds factories with robots powered by physical AI models, raised a $100M Series A led by Marlinspike  —  Large companies have learned over the past couple years that they can get more mileage out of AI agents by rethinking their processes from scratch …

The CFTC files a legal challenge to block Utah's attempt to restrict prediction market betting, asserting it is the sole US regulator of prediction markets  —  The U.S. agency that oversees derivatives has filed a federal legal challenge to halt Utah's attempt to stop prediction market betting in its state …

Discord says it will let public-channel messages from servers listed in Server Discovery appear in web search from mid-December; admins and members can opt out  —  Discord announced on Tuesday it will make some conversations in its public servers searchable and easier to find on the internet.

An Anthropic hiring manager says he stopped giving coding interviews because Claude is better at them and tells junior engineers that “hunger beats tenure”  —  This month, I laid the traditional coding interview to rest.  As a hiring manager at Anthropic, I stopped asking candidates to do them.

Letter: Senator Elizabeth Warren asks Dario Amodei for “exhaustive responses” to four pages of questions by November 3 regarding existential risks in its S-1  —  The Democratic senator told the AI giant to answer four pages of questions about its IPO filing by Nov. 3

Email: a hacker attack forced the FEC to temporarily take its filing system offline around 10pm ET on Monday, blocking groups from submitting reports  —  The US Federal Election Commission's website was targeted by a hacker or hackers, according to an email seen by Reuters …

Anthropic details early drug development work with six partners and says it has acquired Mithril, a one-person company working on muscular dystrophy  —  There are many opportunities to speed up drug development, even beyond the most commonly discussed applications of AI, like proposing initial designs for new molecules.

OpenAI says it's launching an election “war room” ahead of the US midterms to identify potential spread of misinfo or other efforts to disrupt the elections  —  OpenAI is standing up an election “war room” ahead of the midterms, the company exclusively told Decoded by POLITICO.

Samsung unveils the $229 Galaxy Buds On, its first open-fit, C-shaped cuff earbuds to compete with Sony and Bose, designed with AI's help, shipping November 6  —  Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled its first pair of cuff-style earbuds, adding to a growing category that includes products from Sony Group Corp. …

Amazon Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Colorsoft review: premium feel, lightweight, nice colors, and snappy performance, but expensive after price increases  —  The latest generation of Kindle's 7-inch e-readers have a new look and new accessories.  But are they worth the upgrade given Amazon's new Kindle prices?

How Silicon Valley billionaires raised $333M+ to try to defeat a 5% California wealth tax; Patrick Collison's $33M is his most serious campaign engagement yet  —  Every Tuesday for the last few months, two dozen of the world's richest people or their advisers hop onto a conference call and plan for war.

Dropbox plans to cut ~6% of its staff, or ~200 jobs, costing $27M to $33M in severance and related costs, and says CTO Ali Dasdan will step down on November 18  —  File hosting service Dropbox (DBX.O) said on Wednesday it would cut its global workforce by about 9% to align investments …

Jio Platforms, India's largest telecom and digital services company, jumps 21.4% in its trading debut, after raising ~$3.2B in the country's largest-ever IPO  —  Jio Platforms' shares rose 21.4% on their trading debut Wednesday after a record initial public offering that was lapped up by retail as well as institutional investors.